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Metro Vancouver Outreach

HeadStart
Early Learning (ages 2-5)

HeadStart programs aim to level the playing field for children living in Vancouver's inner-city by providing a stimulating learning experience. The programs serve children of families from a wide range of cultural and socio-economic backgrounds. Contact Arts Umbrella for further information on programs in your community.

Programs run at the following locations:

• Ray-Cam Cooperative Centre
• Grandview Terrace Child Care
• Eagles-in-the-Sky Daycare
• Strathcona Community Centre
• Britannia Pre-school

Art Start for Parents

This program provides visual art and creative movement training to parents enrolled in Ray-Cam's Child Care Training program. Arts Umbrella assists in providing specialist training skills and resources to parents who are mostly new to Canada and parenthood, training to become employed as child-care workers.

Arts Outreach at the Focus Foundation

The Focus Foundation of BC offers a variety of support services for youth city-wide. This weekly drop-in program provides a fun and safe environment for youth to develop skills and expertise in the fine and performing arts.

Theatre Arts Outreach at Britannia
Ages 12-15

This program offers after-school instruction in improvisation, mask making, clowning, script development and puppetry for students in grades 7-9, at Britannia Community Centre. Students are provided with a nutritional snack each week. A public performance is held annually.

Theatre Arts Outreach at Strathcona
Ages 7-12

This eight-month program includes improvisation, mask making, clowning, script development and puppetry. Children are transported to Strathcona Community Centre and provided with a nutritional snack. A public performance is held annually.

Theatre Arts Outreach at Kiwassa Neighborhood House

Kiwassa Children's program provides programming for people living in the Hastings Sunrise and Grandview Woodlands area. The classes provide mentorship and encourage self-esteem through games, improvisation, scene work and performance.

Arts Outreach at the Immigration Services Society (ISS)

Arts Umbrella offers young people who are going through a settlement program at ISS a chance to develop their own creative expression, build self-confidence, and learn new skills through play, movement, music and art making in a safe and supportive environment. Open to those participating in a refugee settlement program.

Music and Theatre Fundamentals at Florence Nightingale Elementary School

Students participate in two back-to-back classes, exploring the basics of music and theatre leearning. Musical Expressions introduces the general elements of rhythm, melody, form and tibre, while the Theatre component explores the basics of improvisation, mime and movement.

Dance Outreach at Henderson Annex

Fun and exciting dance instruction in a variety of styles is provided to K-Grade 4 students. Through basic dance movements and vocabulary, group dances, games and choreography, the program fosters balance, coordination, fitness and creative expression.

Surrey Arts Outreach at Lena Shaw Elementary - School Stars Academy

This multi-discipline program offers after-school instruction in theatre, visual arts and photography to grades 9-12 students. Classes are designed to help students of the Stars Academy program build self-confidence, develop positive peer connections, and learn problem solving skills while exploring their own creative expression and process.